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Where Were You Then Edge of Eternity features some of the biggest and most important historical events of the second half of the twentieth century, from the building of the Berlin Wall to the Cuban Missile Crisis We’re collecting your memories of where you were and what you were doing when some of these events took place as part of a major digital project We’ll publish a selection in the second edition ebook and paperback editions of Edge of Eternity, publishing in 2015 To take part and share your memory of Where You Were Then, visit: www.wherewereyouthen.com KEN FOLLETT EDGE OF ETERNITY MACMILLAN To all the freedom fighters, especially Barbara Cast of characters American Dewar Family Cameron Dewar Ursula ‘Beep’ Dewar, his sister Woody Dewar, his father Bella Dewar, his mother Peshkov-Jakes Family George Jakes Jacky Jakes, his mother Greg Peshkov, his father Lev Peshkov, his grandfather Marga, his grandmother Marquand Family Verena Marquand Percy Marquand, her father Babe Lee, her mother CIA Florence Geary Tony Savino Tim Tedder, semi-retired Keith Dorset Others Maria Summers Joseph Hugo, FBI Larry Mawhinney, Pentagon Nelly Fordham, old flame of Greg Peshkov Dennis Wilson, aide to Bobby Kennedy Skip Dickerson, aide to Lyndon Johnson Leopold ‘Lee’ Montgomery, reporter Herb Gould, television journalist on This Day Suzy Cannon, gossip reporter Frank Lindeman, television network owner Real Historical Characters John F Kennedy, 35th US President Jackie, his wife Bobby Kennedy, his brother Dave Powers, assistant to President Kennedy Pierre Salinger, President Kennedy’s press officer Revd Dr Martin Luther King, Jr., President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference Lyndon B Johnson, 36th US President Richard Nixon, 37th US President Jimmy Carter, 39th US President Ronald Reagan, 40th US President George H W Bush, 41st US President British Leckwith-Williams Family Dave Williams Evie Williams, his sister Daisy Williams, his mother Lloyd Williams, MP, his father Ethel Leckwith (née Williams), Dave’s grandmother Murray Family Jasper Murray Anna Murray, his sister Eva Murray, his mother Musicians in the Guardsmen and Plum Nellie Lenny, Dave Williams’s cousin Lew, drummer Buzz, bass player Geoffrey lead guitarist Others Earl Fitzherbert, called Fitz Sam Cakebread, friend of Jasper Murray Byron Chesterfield (real name Brian Chesnowitz), music agent Hank Remington (real name Harry Riley), pop star Eric Chapman, record company executive German Franck Family Rebecca Hoffmann Carla Franck, Rebecca’s adoptive mother Werner Franck, Rebecca’s adoptive father Walli Franck, son of Carla Lili Franck, daughter of Werner and Carla Maud von Ulrich (née Lady Maud Fitzherbert), Carla’s mother Hans Hoffmann, Rebecca’s husband Others Bernd Held, schoolteacher Karolin Koontz, folk singer Odo Vossler, clergyman Real Historical Characters Walter Ulbricht, First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party (Communist) Erich Honecker, Ulbricht’s successor Egon Krenz, successor to Honecker Polish Stanislaw ‘Staz’ Pawlak, army officer Lidka, girlfriend of Cam Dewar Danuta Gorski, Solidarity activist Real Historical Characters Anna Walentynowicz, crane driver Lech Wałȩsa, leader of the trade union Solidarity General Jaruzelski, Prime Minister Russian Dvorkin-Peshkov Family Tania Dvorkin, journalist Dimka Dvorkin, Kremlin aide, Tania’s twin brother Nina, Dimka’s girlfriend Anya Dvorkin, their mother Grigori Peshkov, their grandfather Katerina Peshkov, their grandmother Vladimir, always called Volodya, their uncle Zoya, Volodya’s wife Others Daniil Antonov, features editor at TASS Pyotr Opotkin, features editor-in-chief Vasili Yenkov, dissident Natalya Smotrov, official in the Foreign Ministry Nik Smotrov, Natalya’s husband Yevgeny Filipov, aide to Defence Minister Rodion Malinovsky Vera Pletner, Dimka’s secretary Valentin, Dimka’s friend Marshal Mikhail Pushnoy Real Historical Characters Nikita Sergeyevitch Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Andrei Gromyko, Foreign Minister under Khrushchev Rodion Malinovsky, Defence Minister under Khrushchev Alexei Kosygin, Chairman of the Council of Ministers Leonid Brezhnev, Khrushchev’s successor Yuri Andropov, successor to Brezhnev Konstantin Chernenko, successor to Andropov Mikhail Gorbachev, successor to Chernenko Other Nations Paz Oliva, Cuban general Frederik Bíró, Hungarian politician Enok Andersen, Danish accountant ...Where Were You Then Edge of Eternity features some of the biggest and most important historical events of the second half of the twentieth century, from the building of the Berlin Wall to the... and paperback editions of Edge of Eternity, publishing in 2015 To take part and share your memory of Where You Were Then, visit: www.wherewereyouthen.com KEN FOLLETT EDGE OF ETERNITY MACMILLAN To... room and made a cup of instant coffee before opening it When she read it she dropped her coffee The single sheet of paper was headed: ‘Ministry for 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